xfstt + urxvt + mc causes crash
I'm running debian etch, and installed xfstt to use TT anti-aliased fonts in my emacs23. I'm trying out urxvt (rxvt-unicode) in place of xterm. It seems to work OK, but when I use it to start mc (MidnightCommander), the urxvt terminal hangs. This prevents my starting xterm, another urxvt, or logging out or even reboot. I have to do a dirty shutdown. I assume the problem is a font issue. When I tried mc with plain rxvt, the line characters in mc were replaced by garbage charcters that seem to me to represent unknown characters (A-circumflex followed by two bytes). I'm running xfstt, but not xfstt: $ ps aux | grep xfs root 2897 0.0 0.0 2828 752 ? S 12:28 0:00 /usr/bin/xfstt --daemon --notcp root 3202 0.0 0.0 7444 632 ? S 12:29 0:00 /usr/bin/xfstt --daemon --notcp So my Type 1 fonts are being offered by the X server instead of xfs. I run the following command and it returns a lot of lines suggesting that TT but not Type 1 fonts are being served: $ fslsfonts -server unix/:7101 ... -msttcorefonts-courier new-bold-i-normal-bold -italic-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 -bitstream-bernhardmod bt-bold-i-normal-bold -italic-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 -ttf-dejavu-dejavu sans mono-bold-i-normal-bold -oblique-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso885 ... When I do to see if Type 1 Courier is served: $ showfont -fn courier can't open server localhost:7100 it shouldn't be trying to open port 7100 in debian, but 7101. When I do this, however, I may be getting Type 1: $ xlsfonts ... -adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--17-120-100-100-m-100-iso10646-1 Does this mean Type 1 fonts are being served? Do I have to be running xfs for mc or urxvt to access Type 1 fonts? Can I run both xfs and xfstt together? The font being used by xterm and urxvt are a similar sans, but differ in size. However, the urxvt font does not look it is anti-aliased. Before installing urxvt I had installed plain rxvt. While it could start mc, it could not display the mc line characters, replacing them with two byte garbage characters. -- Haines Brown, KB1GRM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
difference entre xfs-xtt et xfstt
bonjour, pouvez-vous me dire quelles sont les différences concrètes sous debian unstable entre xfs-xtt - X-TrueType font server xfstt - TrueType Font Server for X11 merci
Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt
begin David Morse quote from Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:32:11AM -0400 I'm using the XFree that comes with the gnome-woody-backport. Can I see your FontPaths from /usr/X11/XF86Config-4? Also, I have I have FontPath/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType And I installed x-ttcidfont, and now truetype font packages Just Work. Just make sure you have Type1 at the bottom of the FontPath list, or you will end up with some mighty ugly fonts. # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype towards the top of that file. Is this what you have? That will be fine. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MD4 Albright Albright Treasury smuggle Capricorn SDI MD2 Hi, VeriSign! [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt
- Subject: Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt From: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:21:36 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running xlsfonts gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense for a number of reasons. Its Family is not vera but bitstream. Its weight is not bold but vera. Its slant is not italic but bitstream vera sans mono. What!? It looks like something tried to put ttf-bitstream-vera as the foundry field, which is wrong. (Note that your font spec has 16 fields, rather than the usual 14.) Does it work fine without xfstt? In the sense that vera disappears from the list, yes it works fine. Modern XFree86, including what's in woody, can natively handle TrueType fonts without an external font server. I'm using the XFree that comes with the gnome-woody-backport. Can I see your FontPaths from /usr/X11/XF86Config-4? Also, I have # This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules Loadtype1 Loadfreetype towards the top of that file. Is this what you have? FWIW, my Bitstream Vera fonts look more like -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 which is much closer to what I'd actually expect. (On sid, without using any X font server at all.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt
I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running xlsfonts gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense for a number of reasons. Its Family is not vera but bitstream. Its weight is not bold but vera. Its slant is not italic but bitstream vera sans mono. What!? Type violations a plenty. Applications like xterm refuse to use this font, typically saying they are unable to open it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bizzarre X fontspecs from xfstt
David Morse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I apt-got xfstt in order to use bitstream-vera-sans-mono in emacs and xterm, however, now I get strange, broken behavior. Running xlsfonts gets me, among other things: -ttf-bitstream-vera-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal-roman-0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 This makes no sense for a number of reasons. Its Family is not vera but bitstream. Its weight is not bold but vera. Its slant is not italic but bitstream vera sans mono. What!? It looks like something tried to put ttf-bitstream-vera as the foundry field, which is wrong. (Note that your font spec has 16 fields, rather than the usual 14.) Does it work fine without xfstt? Modern XFree86, including what's in woody, can natively handle TrueType fonts without an external font server. FWIW, my Bitstream Vera fonts look more like -bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1 which is much closer to what I'd actually expect. (On sid, without using any X font server at all.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Qual a diferença entre xfs-xtt e xfstt?
Oi gente, como vão? Espero que bem... Qual a diferença entre xfs-xtt e xfstt? Alguém poderia me informar se o xfs-xtt tb lê fontes truetype do win? E se não lê, para que ele serve? Abraços, Guilherme
xfstt superfluous?
In an attempt to fix ugly fonts in gtk1.2 apps, I just added /usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the xfs configuration file /etc/X11/fs/config, and it worked! Does this mean that xfs can serve both PS and TT, making xfstt completely unnecessary? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfstt
Am Montag, 11. November 2002 00:17 schrieb Andreas Pakulat: On 10.Nov 2002 - 23:40:18, Frank Habermann (LordLamer) wrote: hi ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und Seit X 4.0 kann X11 auch ohne xfstt Truetype Fonts benutzen. die fonts in ein verzeichnis kopiert. dann hab ich die xconfig angepasst. aber ich kann unter x keine weiteren fonts auswählen? hab ich was vergessen? Hmm, mal schauen: X11 neu gestartet hast du sicherlich oder? Was für nen eintrag hast du in der XF86Config-3/4 (je nach Version des XServers)? Hast du den xfstt auch gestartet? Ich weiß jetzt nicht wie das mit xfstt ist, aber wenn man die Fonts direkt mit X11 benutzen will braucht man meines Wissens nur mit ttmkfdir eine fonts.dir in dem Verzeichnis erzeugen und den X11 Server neu starten (es gibt auch ne Möglichkeit das ohne Neustart hinzukriegen, ich weiß aber nicht wie). Andreas hi! also ich hab XFree 4. hab jetzt versucht in die xfreeconfig die zeile einzufügen. hab ja die tt-fonts in nem verzeichnis! der x-server startet ohne probleme! aber ich kann unter x keine neuen fonts auswählen. irgendwie komisch. in dem verzeichnis der fonts hab ich nur die datei fonts.dir die ich mir erstellt hab. fehlt noch was? -- Frank Habermann -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: xfstt
On 11.Nov 2002 - 16:02:47, Frank Habermann (LordLamer) wrote: Am Montag, 11. November 2002 00:17 schrieb Andreas Pakulat: On 10.Nov 2002 - 23:40:18, Frank Habermann (LordLamer) wrote: hi ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und Seit X 4.0 kann X11 auch ohne xfstt Truetype Fonts benutzen. die fonts in ein verzeichnis kopiert. dann hab ich die xconfig angepasst. aber ich kann unter x keine weiteren fonts auswählen? hab ich was vergessen? Hmm, mal schauen: X11 neu gestartet hast du sicherlich oder? Was für nen eintrag hast du in der XF86Config-3/4 (je nach Version des XServers)? Hast du den xfstt auch gestartet? Ich weiß jetzt nicht wie das mit xfstt ist, aber wenn man die Fonts direkt mit X11 benutzen will braucht man meines Wissens nur mit ttmkfdir eine fonts.dir in dem Verzeichnis erzeugen und den X11 Server neu starten (es gibt auch ne Möglichkeit das ohne Neustart hinzukriegen, ich weiß aber nicht wie). Andreas hi! also ich hab XFree 4. hab jetzt versucht in die xfreeconfig die zeile einzufügen. hab ja die tt-fonts in nem verzeichnis! der x-server startet ohne probleme! aber ich kann unter x keine neuen fonts auswählen. irgendwie komisch. in dem verzeichnis der fonts hab ich nur die datei fonts.dir die ich mir erstellt hab. fehlt noch was? Ja eventuell. Stand schon in ner anderen Mail zu dem Problem, ich hatte das ganz vergessen: Folgende Zeile muss noch in die Modulsektion: Load freetype Dann sollte das wirklich gehen. Tut mir leid, aber wenn man nich in die Config reinguckt entfallen einem solche Kleinigkeiten leicht Andreas -- Ich bleibe auf jeden Fall wahrscheinlich beim KSC. -- Sean Dundee msg24688/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
xfstt
hi ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und die fonts in ein verzeichnis kopiert. dann hab ich die xconfig angepasst. aber ich kann unter x keine weiteren fonts auswählen? hab ich was vergessen? cu -- Frank Habermann -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: xfstt
On 10.Nov 2002 - 23:40:18, Frank Habermann (LordLamer) wrote: hi ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und Seit X 4.0 kann X11 auch ohne xfstt Truetype Fonts benutzen. die fonts in ein verzeichnis kopiert. dann hab ich die xconfig angepasst. aber ich kann unter x keine weiteren fonts auswählen? hab ich was vergessen? Hmm, mal schauen: X11 neu gestartet hast du sicherlich oder? Was für nen eintrag hast du in der XF86Config-3/4 (je nach Version des XServers)? Hast du den xfstt auch gestartet? Ich weiß jetzt nicht wie das mit xfstt ist, aber wenn man die Fonts direkt mit X11 benutzen will braucht man meines Wissens nur mit ttmkfdir eine fonts.dir in dem Verzeichnis erzeugen und den X11 Server neu starten (es gibt auch ne Möglichkeit das ohne Neustart hinzukriegen, ich weiß aber nicht wie). Andreas -- Rezept: Hähnchen-Gemüsetopf Kategorie: Gemüse, Geflügel Für: 4 Gedecke Zutaten: 1 pkWild- und Langkornreis (200 g) 1 1/4 l Brühe (instant) 1 rote Paprikaschote (200g) 1 grüne Paprikaschote (200g) 1 smrote Peperoni 1 smgrüne Peperoni 2 Stangen Bleichsellerie (150g) 500 g Okraschoten (Gumbo) 500 g Hähnchenbrustfilet 3 tbOlivenöl Salz, weißer Pfeffer Reis in der Brühe 20 - 25 Minuten garen. Gemüse waschen, putzen, Paprikaschoten und Peperoni achteln. Weiße Trennwaende und Kerne entfernen. Die Achtel in Streifen, den Sellerie in Ringe schneiden. Von den Okraschoten die Enden entfernen. Größere Schoten längs oder quer halbieren. Hähnchen waschen, trockentupfen und in breite Streifen schneiden. In einem Topf mit heißem Öl anbraten, das Gemüse zufügen, unter Wenden 5 Minuten dünsten. Alles zum Reis geben. Noch 3 Minuten garen und pikant abschmecken. msg24659/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xfstt
Hallo, Frank! Sonntag, der 10. November 2002 | ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und die fonts in Ich auch! ;) Und daher habe ich in XFCfg4 dann einfach freetype eingetragen. Reicht hier dicke aus. -- regards, gr. Neue Viren: Amnesty International Virus: Dieser Virus setzt sich in den oberen Speicherbereich und führt automatisch ein Undelete aller gelöschten Dateien durch. -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: xfstt
Hallo, Frank Habermann (LordLamer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:40:18 +0100:: hi ich will truetype-fonts nutzen! hab mir xfstt installiert und die fonts in ein verzeichnis kopiert. dann hab ich die xconfig angepasst. aber ich kann unter x keine weiteren fonts auswählen? hab ich was vergessen? AFAIK musst Du noch ein Font-Liste erzeugen. man mkttfdir Gruß, hans -- Häufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
Re: xfs vs. xfs-xtt vs xfstt (was: Re: Euro-Zeichen nachtrglich)
#include hallo.h Kai Weber wrote on Mon Apr 08, 2002 um 12:19:46AM: Läuft bei mir alles über xfs und xfstt Sorry, dass ich hier den Thread einmal sprengen muss. Ich frage mich gerade, was die Unterschiede zwischen den Fontservern sind: es gibt den xfs, xfstt und xfs-xtt. Letztere rendern TrueType. Aber auch der xfs rendert bei mir TrueType. Vor alles historische Unterschiede. xfs konnte ursrpünglich keine TT-Fonts. Es entstanden (zu xf-3.3.6-Zeiten) zwei Projekte, um eine Lösung zu finden: ein Fork des xfs, und ein neuer Server (xfstt). Heute sind anscheinend die xfs-Erweiterungen in den xfs von Xfree86-4.x eingeflossen, ausserdem kann Xfree86-4.x die Fonts direkt verarbeiten. Benutzt jmd. xfs-xtt/xfstt und kann deren Vorteile einmal erläutern? Verschiedene Server haben verschiedene Macken bei der Darstellung der Zeichensätze. Für latin1 nur selten relevant. xfstt kann je nach Konfiguration xserver-xfree86 (xf4.0) killen. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Es kann aeusserst gefaehrlich sein, etwas ohne ausreichende Vorbereitung aus der Sicht eines anderen Menschen zu betrachten. === Douglas Adams / Einmal Rupert und zurueck === -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
xfs vs. xfs-xtt vs xfstt (was: Re: Euro-Zeichen nachträglich)
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 07:33:03PM +0200, Udo Mueller wrote: Section Files FontPath unix/:7100 EndSection Läuft bei mir alles über xfs und xfstt Sorry, dass ich hier den Thread einmal sprengen muss. Ich frage mich gerade, was die Unterschiede zwischen den Fontservern sind: es gibt den xfs, xfstt und xfs-xtt. Letztere rendern TrueType. Aber auch der xfs rendert bei mir TrueType. Benutzt jmd. xfs-xtt/xfstt und kann deren Vorteile einmal erläutern? Kai. -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
xfs-xtt a xfstt
Moglby mi ktos wyjasnic roznice pomiedzy xfs-xtt a xfstt? Wlasnie zauwazylem, ze ten pierwszy zzera mi dosc duzo pamieci, a po zastopowaniu go nie zauwazylem wiekszej roznicy w dzialaniu Xow? Moze ktos wie czy w takim razie warto go zostawiac w systemie? krst. -- Krzysztof Urbanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xfs-xtt a xfstt
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 05:53:08PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moglby mi ktos wyjasnic roznice pomiedzy xfs-xtt a xfstt? Wlasnie zauwazylem, ze ten pierwszy zzera mi dosc duzo pamieci, a po zastopowaniu go nie zauwazylem wiekszej roznicy w dzialaniu Xow? Moze ktos wie czy w takim razie warto go zostawiac w systemie? Jeśli masz X-y 4.* (używane tylko lokalnie) to żaden z nich nie jest potrzebny. eloy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To jest po prostu dłużyzna, proszę pana. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GTK crash - xfstt
Hi! seit einiger zeit crashen bei mit gtk-apps wie z.b. gnomecal, etc. beim start kommt folgende fehlermeldung: Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-15 je nach anwendung kommt ein paar sek. später ein crash: GnomeUI-ERROR **: file gnome-icon-item.c: line 304 (get_default_font): assertion failed: (default_font != NULL) aborting... Aborted ich habe nach einigen stunden herausgefunden, dass das problem an kaputten truetype fonts liegt. wenn ich den fontpath zum xfstt mit xset -fp unix/:7101 deaktiviere, dann läuft die applikation einwandfrei - ich hab nur keine ttf mehr (vgl. mit xlsfonts) auch wenn ich in /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ den befehl mkttfdir aufrufe dann folgt ein segmentation fault. daraus ziehe ich den schluss, dass eine oder mehrere fonts kapput sind. wie finde ich diese? ich hab keine lust font für font in das verzeichnis zu spielen und die font zu prüfen! danke markus -- --- Markus Garschaemail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hartmannstr. 129fon: 09131/626715 91058 Erlangen fax: +49 89 244356966 pgp-keyid: 0xEE18AF3B --- msg02353/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: GTK crash - xfstt
[Markus Garscha]: ich habe nach einigen stunden herausgefunden, dass das problem an kaputten truetype fonts liegt. wenn ich den fontpath zum xfstt mit daraus ziehe ich den schluss, dass eine oder mehrere fonts kapput sind. wie finde ich diese? ich hab keine lust font für font in das verzeichnis Gruß, alte truetype's beseitigen/backupen und msttcorefonts installieren. cu -- hafi -- Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] mit dem Subject unsubscribe. Probleme? Mail an [EMAIL PROTECTED] (engl)
font servers: xfs vs. xfstt
Hi, If I use lots of tt fonts, should I use xfstt instead? Do I even need xfs* at all? The reason I ask is that I just brought over tt fonts from my licensed copy of windows. Then I ran mkttfontdir (well, apt-get ran it for me, when I installed it), and added the directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType to the catalogue list in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fs/config and restarted xfs. Next, when I ran syplheed 0.7.0 from a terminal window, it died after spitting out a multitude of GDK-related font errors. (Unfortunately, I did not write them down.) TIA, Ron -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr.Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81| || ! Great Inventors of our time: | !Al Gore - Internet | !Sun Microsystems - Clusters| ++
xfstt y abiword de ximian en potato
Hola colisteros, espero que la estén pasando muy bien en estas fiestas. He instalado xfstt en mi patata 2.2r2 y el abiword de ximian, he copiado algunas fuentes ttf al directorio de donde xfstt las lee. Sé que funciona pues en Sylpheed por ejemplo al elegir la fuente por defecto de la aplicación veo las ttf pero en el cuadro de fuentes de abiword siguen saliendo solamente las que ya venían. Alguna ayuda, por favor? -- Julio Recalde | Linux User # 230351 | Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r2 'Potato' his tastes were simple: food, drink, women and books. -Henry Miller _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Xfstt problems?
on Tue, Sep 18, 2001 at 10:58:34AM +0200, Peczöli Zoltán ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing problems with the xfstt package, not sure if it's a bug so i thought i would ask you folks here before reporting one. Installing xfstt I follow the guide in the mini FAQ of TT-Debian. xlsfonts successfully lists all the *-ttf-* fonts I installed from the W*s partition, so does fslsfont -server unix/:7101, so I suppose xfstt is working. In spite of all these, I still can't see my truetype fonts, neither in my applications, nor in xfontsel (in fact, xfontsel knows about the ttfs, but does not render them at all, even messes up the rendering view) Can you describe how the fonts are malformed when displayed? Post a screenshot (small) if possible of an effected application, to a website if possible, on-list if necessary. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgpNzuliPqREK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Xfstt problems?
Hi, I'm experiencing problems with the xfstt package, not sure if it's a bug so i thought i would ask you folks here before reporting one. Installing xfstt I follow the guide in the mini FAQ of TT-Debian. xlsfonts successfully lists all the *-ttf-* fonts I installed from the W*s partition, so does fslsfont -server unix/:7101, so I suppose xfstt is working. In spite of all these, I still can't see my truetype fonts, neither in my applications, nor in xfontsel (in fact, xfontsel knows about the ttfs, but does not render them at all, even messes up the rendering view) If someone has any suggestions, please cc me, I'm not on the list. Thanx, Pocok
Re: More problems with xfstt
Thanks for this pointer - as it turns out, you're right; a barcode font was the first returned when xfstt was on. I've fixed it like this; a hack, but it makes things work right: 1.) Make a new font directory: mkdir /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default 2.) Put the default font in it: cd /usr/lib/X11/fonts/default ln -s ../misc/10x20.pcf.gz 3.) Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config: Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/default/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/default/ FontPathunix/:7101 FontPathunix/:7100 ... That causes non-picky applications (e.g., those that just use the first font available) to be assigned the default (10x20), since it's the first one returned by the fonts system. Thanks for your help, Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi and xfontsel. In both of these places, all buttons and menus are displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone without a photographic memory. If you don't specify a default font for many apps, they'll choose the first one they see in the list. This is often bad. Unfortunately, I know of no way to change the order of the list (it's not based on directory order in the search path, afaict), so I just added a *font: fixed to my .Xdefaults. The reason it happens only on one machine and not the other, and only with xfstt, is that you have a TT font on one machine but not the other, and that's the one that showing up. Or, that's as far as I can tell. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Nobody ever died from oven crude poisoning. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
More problems with xfstt
Well, I fixed the emacs problem I asked about earlier by specifying a particular font for emacs menus. But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi and xfontsel. In both of these places, all buttons and menus are displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone without a photographic memory. Can someone who understands font selection help with what might be happening? This happens only when using truetype fonts via xfstt. When I turn off xfstt, everything works as normal. Oddly enough, it happens only on my office machine; my home machine is happy with xfstt. Details: - IBM Netvista A40 - nVidia video card - Debian 2.2r3, all patches Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
Re: More problems with xfstt
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the same problem is popping up in other places, including xdvi and xfontsel. In both of these places, all buttons and menus are displayed in a barcode font, making them unusable to anyone without a photographic memory. If you don't specify a default font for many apps, they'll choose the first one they see in the list. This is often bad. Unfortunately, I know of no way to change the order of the list (it's not based on directory order in the search path, afaict), so I just added a *font: fixed to my .Xdefaults. The reason it happens only on one machine and not the other, and only with xfstt, is that you have a TT font on one machine but not the other, and that's the one that showing up. Or, that's as far as I can tell. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Nobody ever died from oven crude poisoning.
Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts
Interestingly enough, that didn't do it; I got the same thing as before. However, this did: Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--0-0-75-75-c-0-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*background: gray -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Alan Shutko wrote: Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a somewhat more normal font for the menus? I use Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*background: gray in my .Xresources. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xfstt and emacs: weird fonts
Greetings- I've just been experimenting with xfstt on my two machines (home and work), each running debian linux 2.2r3 (kernel 2.2.17pre19) to be able to use truetype fonts. At home, it worked fine until today. At the office, emacs' menus showed up in a bizarre, bar-code font that made emacs impossible to use. I turned off xfstt (actually just took out the line that set X to use xfstt) and the problem went away. Today, I had to reboot my home machine (first time in several weeks) and when I did so, the emacs menus showed up in another strange truetype font (looks like old west saloon writing). It's useable, but very odd. Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a somewhat more normal font for the menus? Thanks. -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
Re: xfstt and emacs: weird fonts
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone experienced this before? Any way to get emacs to use a somewhat more normal font for the menus? I use Emacs*menubar*background: gray Emacs*menubar*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*font: -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal-*-*-90-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1 Emacs*menu*background: gray in my .Xresources. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
xfstt kills emacs
I finally got around to using some truetype fonts, following the directions in the truetype fonts under debian mini HOWTO. Everything worked fine (all the way through the fslsfonts business), and the truetype fonts made Netscape look much prettier. Unfortunately though, they killed emacs! The menu titles are displayed in a very tall, barcode font, making them both illegible and take up half the screen. If I comment out the FontPath unix/:7101 line in XF86Config and restart X, emacs is fine, so I'm pretty sure it's the truetype that's causing the problem. Specifics: Debian 2.2r3, kernel 2.2.17pre19 (compiled here) Gnu Emacs 20.7.2 -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
xfstt in Debian
So, I installed xfstt, and I followed the instructions in the Debian mini HOWTO for setting up truetypes. Now, when I try to start X, I get an error about not being able to find the default font, fixed. Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPathunix/:7101 FontPathunix/:7100 ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules EndSection Both servers are running. fslsfonts -server unix/:7101 returns my installed truetype fonts. How can servers that are only supposed to add fonts to the available list, remove fonts from being available?? If I comment out the 7101 line for xfstt, X starts up fine. Help? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 pgpr2S2uwAdjs.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts -- SOLVED
mike polniak wrote: You may have to re-create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir. Never mind. I copied the fonts again from a fresh Win98 install, resynced xfstt and now everything works fine. Dunno, why it wouldn't work before. Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: mike polniak wrote: Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files there and `xfstt --sync` will find them all: # xfstt --sync xfstt: sync in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. Found 16 fonts. # `xlsfonts` will list them, but they won't render in X. X reverts to some default font, fixed I think. You may have to re-create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir. -- ~~~
Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts
mike polniak wrote: Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. The default dir here is /usr/share/fonts/truetype. I have 16 TTF files there and `xfstt --sync` will find them all: # xfstt --sync xfstt: sync in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. Found 16 fonts. # `xlsfonts` will list them, but they won't render in X. X reverts to some default font, fixed I think. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts
mike polniak wrote: # xfstt --sync xfstt: sync in directory /usr/share/fonts/truetype/. Found 16 fonts. # `xlsfonts` will list them, but they won't render in X. X reverts to some default font, fixed I think. You may have to re-create the fonts.scale and fonts.dir. There has never been a fonts.scale and fonts.dir file on my old machine regarding true type fonts. Also, putting the following into fonts.scale and running `mkfontdir` did not produce a meaningfull fonts.dir file: arial.ttf -ttf-arial-medium-r-normal-tt-18-240-75-75-p-123-iso8859-1 Still no luck. -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts
Hi all, I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and did: # /etc/init.d/xfstt stop # xfstt --sync # /etc/init.d/xfstt start # xset fp+ unix/:7101 This shows no error messages, but I still can't use true type fonts. `xlsfonts` will list them and I can select them in `xfontsel`. However, the rendering of the example text in `xfontsel` won't change when selecting a truetype font. (It changes when I select any other font.) Any ideas what I could be missing? Thanks, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/ Geek Code (3.1): GCS/SS d-@ s+: a20 C++@ UL++$ P+ L+++ E--- W++ N++ o? K? !W O? M? V? PS++@ PE+(-) Y+ P?(+++) t+ 5+ X- R? !tv b+ DI+ D- G e+++ h-- r- !y+
Re: X/xfstt won't render truetype fonts
-Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: Hi all, I've been using true type fonts with xfstt on my slink machine for years now without troubles. Recently I installed potato on a new machine, copied the fonts from the old machine into /usr/share/fonts/truetype and did: # /etc/init.d/xfstt stop # xfstt --sync # /etc/init.d/xfstt start # xset fp+ unix/:7101 This shows no error messages, but I still can't use true type fonts. `xlsfonts` will list them and I can select them in `xfontsel`. However, the rendering of the example text in `xfontsel` won't change when selecting a truetype font. (It changes when I select any other font.) Any ideas what I could be missing? Check the paths to search for fonts in the font server config file. Mine are located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType. -- ~~~
xfstt??
--- David B. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* about what ths has over the regular way X handles fonts, but I use 'xfstt', which handles truetype fonts. is xfstt a font server that can be used in place of xfs? __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: xfstt??
To quote Xucaen [EMAIL PROTECTED], # is xfstt a font server that can be used in place # of xfs? I don't know if it can be used in place of xfs, but I know it can be used alongside xfs. I've got plenty of resources to burn on my machine, so I've never tried setting up xfstt to handle all my fonts. It just handles the TrueType sort. David Barclay Harris, Clan Barclay Aut agere, aut mori. (Either action, or death.)
Re: xfstt??
'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* about what ths has over the regular way X handles fonts, but I use 'xfstt', which handles truetype fonts. is xfstt a font server that can be used in place of xfs? I believe that xfstt is a font server for TrueType fonts *only*, hence the tt in it's name. If you're running XFree86 v4.x, you don't need it either. Regards Hall
Re: xfstt??
On at 10:44 on Tue 16 Jan, Hall Stevenson wrote: 'xfs' is the X Font Server. I'm not *positive* about what ths has over the regular way X handles fonts, but I use 'xfstt', which handles truetype fonts. is xfstt a font server that can be used in place of xfs? I believe that xfstt is a font server for TrueType fonts *only*, hence the tt in it's name. If you're running XFree86 v4.x, you don't need it either. There is a third option xfs-xtt which replaces xfs for normal fonts and xfstt for TrueType fonts. I use it with XFree-4 and the biggest difference is that the fonts in Netscape are scaled properly and look good. This is what the docs say: This package provide X-TrueType font server. This is compatible normal X font server, but added X-TrueType font handling scheme support instead of FreeType backend. XFree86 4.0's font server can handle TrueType too, but it can not handle TTCap. By using TTCap description, support for font transformations, such as slanting, adjusting glyph width, pseudo-bolding, etc. -- ~~~
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 15:45]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp question 1.2. I've tried adding the following: FontPath unix/:7101# truetype font server FontPath tcp/127.0.0.1:7101 FontPath inet/127.0.0.1:7101 all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using the inetc/127.0.0.1... line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but no text shows up for at least 15 seconds (if not longer). What error message do you get off the unix:/7101 entry? (This should be written to the terminal from which you start X.) According to /var/log/XFree86.0.log, *none* ;-). Everything works, just very, very slowly... Also affected are (3) epplets that I have running under Enlightenment. Hall
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
* John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001226 19:42]: Richard Cobbe wrote: all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using the inetc/127.0.0.1... line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but no text shows up for at least 15 seconds (if not longer). --- I think the mutt will not use any of the fonts designated by your xserver fonts system. It uses those from console-tools and the basic system font. Actually, I have mutt running in an Eterm window and I tell Eterm to use the bright font, which does exist in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc I've tried playing with the order of my FontPath entries with no success so far. Regards Hall Stevenson
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp question 1.2. I've tried adding the following: FontPath unix/:7101# truetype font server FontPath tcp/127.0.0.1:7101 FontPath inet/127.0.0.1:7101 all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using the inetc/127.0.0.1... line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but no text shows up for at least 15 seconds (if not longer). Any ideas there ?? Regards Hall
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Hall Stevenson did write: * Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [001225 21:03]: Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp question 1.2. I've tried adding the following: FontPath unix/:7101# truetype font server FontPath tcp/127.0.0.1:7101 FontPath inet/127.0.0.1:7101 all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using the inetc/127.0.0.1... line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but no text shows up for at least 15 seconds (if not longer). What error message do you get off the unix:/7101 entry? (This should be written to the terminal from which you start X.) Richard
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
Richard Cobbe wrote: all seperately (with two of the three commented out each try). Using the inetc/127.0.0.1... line *does* cause TT fonts to work, but various windows take *too* long to open up. Mutt, for example, opens up almost instantly in it's normal Eterm window, but no text shows up for at least 15 seconds (if not longer). --- I think the mutt will not use any of the fonts designated by your xserver fonts system. It uses those from console-tools and the basic system font. -- We specialize in multi-processor computing systems! John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems
Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
Hi, I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then with the GIMP, but in no program they are available. xfstt-daemon is running. any hints? Patrick
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
on Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 02:38:56AM +0100, Patrick Schnorbus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then with the GIMP, but in no program they are available. xfstt-daemon is running. any hints? xset fp+ unix/:7101 ...should be in ~/.xinitrc or /etc/X11/Xsession. You can also run it from the command line of a shell within your X session. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.comhttp://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Evangelist, Zelerate, Inc. http://www.zelerate.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/http://www.kuro5hin.org pgpLwTEJnaCqn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Cannot use TrueType fonts (xfstt)
Lo, on Tuesday, December 26, Patrick Schnorbus did write: Hi, I´ve just installed xfstt, put some TrueType Fonts in /usr/share/fonts/truetype and updated the xfstt fonts list. But i can´t use the fonts. First I tried them to use with konqueror, then with the GIMP, but in no program they are available. xfstt-daemon is running. any hints? Did you add xfstt to your X server's font path? In /etc/X11/XF86Config, section Files, the following line should work for the default setup: FontPath unix/:7101 See also /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz, esp question 1.2. Richard
Highendian X-Terminal and lowendian xfstt
Hi debian! I had problems to see truetype fonts on my sparcLX, which I use as a X-Terminal. The fontserver is xfstt and runs on my Intel-PC. Someone gave me the hint that sun is bigendian and intel lowendian so that xfstt will never work. Will xfs-xtt do the job? Ciao! juh -- www.juergen-rüttgers.de - und tschö! http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/2504.html
Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt
Subject: Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt Date: Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:30:23PM -0400 In reply to:mike Quoting mike([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this in Mandrake before i started using Debian. However. i have been unable to locate mkfontdir since then. If anyone can point me to 'mkfontdir' i'd appreciate it. Then its just a matter running 'ttmkfdir' to create a file called fonts.scale, which is used by 'mkfontdir' to create the new font files in fonts.dir and then adding this to font path. VT2 root-Deb-Potato:~# dpkg -S mkfontdir xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir xbase-clients: /usr/X11R6/man/man1/mkfontdir.1x.gz dists/potato/main/binary-i386/x11/xbase-clients_3.3.6-10.deb -- You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers. -- Steven Feiner ___
fonts scaling w/h xfstt
I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with nice TrueType fonts. Now, is there a way to scale those fonts ? Right now I can only seem to get one default size. I remember having scaled TTF under RedHat. I'm sure there's a way to do it in Debian, I just don't know how... Thanks !
Re: fonts scaling w/h xfstt
I needed two utilities: 'ttmkfdir' and 'mkfontdir' to do this in Mandrake before i started using Debian. However. i have been unable to locate mkfontdir since then. If anyone can point me to 'mkfontdir' i'd appreciate it. Then its just a matter running 'ttmkfdir' to create a file called fonts.scale, which is used by 'mkfontdir' to create the new font files in fonts.dir and then adding this to font path. On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 06:15:16 -0400, Joel Dinel said: I've got xfstt up and running and serving me with nice TrueType fonts. Now, is there a way to scale those fonts ? Right now I can only seem to get one default size. I remember having scaled TTF under RedHat. I'm sure there's a way to do it in Debian, I just don't know how... fdir Thanks ! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- gEEk||dOOd^Deb+ianXFceeverything goes Pronto(-_-)
xfstt listening on *:7101
According to lsof, my xfstt is listening on *:7101. xfs on the other hand does not. I noticed the no-listen = tcp in /etc/X11/xfs/config and was just wondering if there was something similar for xfstt. Couldn't seem to find any in the manpage.. Or perhaps this would be a reason to switch to xfs-xtt? (if it supports what I'm looking for that is..)
Re: xfstt gives only one true type font size
I have set up xfstt and am able to use true type fonts but when i choose a font , e.g. in Netscape i get only one font size to choose from (listed as size 0). When i set up true type fonts in Linux/Mandrake I also created a fonts.dir and fonts.scale in the truetype directory and then had a choice of font sizes. The Debian How-To doesn't mention creating fonts.dir and fonts.scale and using mkfontdir just created an empty file. What is missing to produce multiple ttf sizes? On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi Mike. Sorry for the delay in my reply. My finding was that xfstt did a better job with the TT fonts than xfs-xtt as xfs-xtt seemed to be more ragged than with xfstt. Also, with xfstt, the Netscape and Mozilla text displays are larger, which is a big help on a 14 inch LCD locked in 1024x768 mode. I recommend xfstt as it is also a simpler install. The TT-Debian mini-HOWTO will do a good job of leading you through the steps of getting xfstt running. Feel free to ask any questions if you want to know how I implemented it here. - Nate -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | None can love freedom Internet | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | heartily, but good Location | Wichita, Kansas USA EM17hs | men; the rest love not Wichita area exams; ham radio; Linux info @ | freedom, but license. http://www.qsl.net/n0nb/ | -- John Milton
xfstt the Gimp
Hi, I have xfstt running and a bunch of fonts copied into /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ First question, do I have to do anything besides having the .ttf in the directory and running xfstt? Second question, how do I get the Gimp to see these fonts? Thanks in advance, Erik
Re: xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato
Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues before i make the changes. xfs-xtt is better for very big, unicode fonts (hint: most far east ones). If you like configuring fonts, it allows you to do some font transforms as well. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh pgpGDDMu0Jfk1.pgp Description: PGP signature
xfs-xtt or xfstt --which font server for potato
My recent Debian potato installed xfs-xtt as the font server. I also see another very similar font server pkg named xfstt. Whats the difference and which is better? Just looking for some clues before i make the changes. On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, Nate Bargmann wrote: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:11:05 -0500 I've had good success after following the TT-Debian mini-HOWTO which demonstrates installing xfstt and a number of True-Type fonts. NS will use them and I found it to make a tremendous difference. Also, I've found that the latest builds of Mozilla use TT fonts even better than NS, so it really is a good solution. There is another True Type font server that Potato wants to install that depends on the FreeType library. My results weren't satisfactory so I went back to xfstt. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: xfs+xfstt or xfs-xtt
I ve done this change a few weeks ago. Both worked fine for me. I believe that (xfs + xfstt) use less memory than xfs-xtt, right now on my system RSS of xfs-xtt is ~3.5K but this seems to depend on configuration and usage (how many TTF requests from your apps) Main advantages for me: - I can use font aliases now for the TTFs (i need that to properly display greek sites in Netscape) - A little better rendering (maybe just my imagination, dont count on this) Difficulties: Not many, although documentation of xfs-xtt seems a little scary at first glance. I just wrote a fonts.dir by hand with entries like: arial.ttf -ttf-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 I made also a relevant fonts.alias put them together with all TTFs in a directory Then add the directory name in xfs catalogue (/etc/X11/xfs/config) and restart xfs. I still dont fully understand the dpi-relevant options of the story currently i have to add a -dpi 100 in my startx command to see TTFs a little bigger on my screen. mit freundlichen Grussen :)) from Athens-Greece On 13-Aug-2000 Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote: Hi! I am currently running xfs + xfstt on Potato with xserver-i128. Would you recommend to change to xfs-xtt? Does it uses less memory? What advantages are there? Are there problems changing the Font Server? TIA juh -- Heute ist der 3. Oktober! Basta! http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991109.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Konstantinos E. Maras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14-Aug-2000 09:53:52
xfs+xfstt or xfs-xtt
Hi! I am currently running xfs + xfstt on Potato with xserver-i128. Would you recommend to change to xfs-xtt? Does it uses less memory? What advantages are there? Are there problems changing the Font Server? TIA juh -- Heute ist der 3. Oktober! Basta! http://www.sudelbuch.de/1999/19991109.html
xfstt and font not available
Hi all, I have just wiped my system and reinstalled Debian (thanks completely to Windows 2000 and my dual booting). I was attempting to setup my truetype fonts for use in X, and I seem to be doing something wrong. Here's what I've done and what it happening: Copied /WINNT/Fonts/* /user/share/fonts/truetype to obtain the font library. apt-get install xfstt added the quoted line to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc xset fp+ unix/:7101 restarted xfstt daemon with . /etc/init.d/xfstt restart And here's what happens: I am running Helix-gnome, so I go into gnomecc to change my default fonts. When I hit browse to select a font, and highlight any of the new ttf fonts (they do appear in the font list), I am told the font is not available and the default 'fixed' font is used in it's place. The same phenomenon occurs in both Mozilla M16-1 and in Netscape, and seemingly any GTK program (i.e. Gnotepad+) Have I left something out? I don't know what is wrong. It obvisouly sees the path. I have also tried running X as root, and that doesn't work either; root gets the same errors as user. Thanks in adavance for any help. Matt
Re: xfstt and font not available
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 09:18:47PM -0500, Matthew Davis wrote: Hi all, I have just wiped my system and reinstalled Debian (thanks completely to Windows 2000 and my dual booting). I was attempting to setup my truetype fonts for use in X, and I seem to be doing something wrong. Here's what I've done and what it happening: Copied /WINNT/Fonts/* /user/share/fonts/truetype to obtain the font library. apt-get install xfstt added the quoted line to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc xset fp+ unix/:7101 I don't think that is the preffered way to set a FontPath globally. Try putting the line: FontPath unix/:7101 in /etc/X11/XF86Config in the Files section. Then stop X, restart xfstt, and restart X to see if it works. Everything else you did looks correct. -- MegaHAL quote: I think a blowpipe is a marijuana cigarrette. It'll get you deleted!
Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I have been looking at the info xfstt, and i really didn't understand whats that with xset fp+ unix/:7101 Can you explain what this means, and what exactly I have to do? Okay, this is of the top of my head, because I don't have Linux at work. The X server can get his fonts from a directory or over a network connection. So the fp+ tells the X-Server to look for fonts in an additional location and the unix/:7101 tells him where to look. I think you have to issue that command as root, after starting X. So to try out xfstt, do the following in a xterm: xfstt -- start xfstt in the background -- wait a couple of seconds xset fp+ unix/:7101 -- add the new fontpath After that you should have true type fonts until you end your current X session. If you like xfstt, you can automate that job, by installing an init script that starts xfstt at boot time (which Debian does for you if you install xfstt from dselect or apt-get) and adding the unix/:7101 to your fontpath in the global XF86Config file (which you have to do yourself). Man XF86Config should help you with the latter. Hope that helps, Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG:http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt
It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to work. Can you use the fonts from windows? If so, how do you do it? Or otherwise, how do you get the fonts? Which is better, xfstt or xfs-xtt, since they seem to conflict with one another?
Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt
Hello, there is a mini-howto for installing ttf for debian and you can find all the information you need to know there. the link is http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-Debian.html#toc6 Good Luck.
Re: xfstt package and fonts; xfstt and xfs-xtt
On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 08:31:54PM +, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: It is said there that you must get the fonts separately for xfstt to work. Yes. Can you use the fonts from windows? Yes. If so, how do you do it? Copy your MS Windows fonts to some location, you can copy them directly or archive them first (winzip, tar, or other multiplatform utility). Copy or unarchive them into a folder. Default is, IIRC, /usr/share/fonts/truetype. Note that the MS EULA for fonts specifically allows their use on different machines. Some of the fonts, however, don't render for me. Or otherwise, how do you get the fonts? There are various sources of TT fonts, including websites, CDs available at office supply stores, peddlers on street corners, large men in dark alleys Just copy the *.ttf files to the appropriate directory. You'll then need to tell the font server you've got fonts. RTFM. Which is better, xfstt or xfs-xtt, since they seem to conflict with one another? Whichever works for you. I'm running xfstt. There is TT support built directly in to XFree86 v4, you won't need a third-party font server for this. -- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of Gestalt don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 pgpJJjwSYnjbT.pgp Description: PGP signature
xfstt question
I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both as root and user accounts) $fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to verify them using xlsfonts | grep ttf so that the server sees all of them..but it does'nt see any fonts what could be the problem? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: xfstt question
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, john smith wrote: I have managed to install xfstt and xfs since I can verify them using (both as root and user accounts) $fslsfonts -server unix/:7100 fslsfonts -server/:7101. /etc/init.d/xfs or xfstt restart works properly. my problem is when trying to verify them using xlsfonts | grep ttf so that the server sees all of them..but it does'nt see any fonts what could be the problem? Did you set up the xfstt font directory ? (or : have you RTFM ?)
Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native
Eric G . Miller wrote: Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to other machines. Not really true. If you've ever been say, using the Gimp, and decided to enter some text in a very large font, and then been annoyed when X locked up for a minute to render that font, you are a prime candidate for running a standalone xfs. -- see shy jo
Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font support is sort of like cheating, i.e. Linux uses its own native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font system to it. Thanks for any input. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null END OF QUOTE I am running both xfs and xfstt. You can specify where X will get its fonts from in XF86Config. TTF fonts render much better, so it's nice to use them whenever you want or have to. One excellent example is Netscape. If you are on a network, you can set up a centralized font server, and point all your X servers to that server.
Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native
On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font support is sort of like cheating, i.e. Linux uses its own native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font system to it. Thanks for any input. END OF QUOTE I am running both xfs and xfstt. You can specify where X will get its fonts from in XF86Config. TTF fonts render much better, so it's nice to use them whenever you want or have to. One excellent example is Netscape. If you are on a network, you can set up a centralized font server, and point all your X servers to that server. Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to other machines. However, xfstt or xfs-tt are really the only way to have TT fonts displayed. Since there's no English documents for xfs-tt, I used xfstt (which is quite easy). There's a preliminary font HOWTO here: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/html . -- ++ | Eric G. Milleregm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | ++
Re: xfs vs xfstt vs native
Eric G . Miller wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 06:45:19PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2000 at 02:59:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font support is sort of like cheating, i.e. Linux uses its own native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font system to it. Thanks for any input. END OF QUOTE I am running both xfs and xfstt. You can specify where X will get its fonts from in XF86Config. TTF fonts render much better, so it's nice to use them whenever you want or have to. One excellent example is Netscape. If you are on a network, you can set up a centralized font server, and point all your X servers to that server. Personally, xfs doesn't make any sense unless you're sharing fonts to other machines. However, xfstt or xfs-tt are really the only way to have TT fonts displayed. Since there's no English documents for xfs-tt, I used xfstt (which is quite easy). There's a preliminary font HOWTO here: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/font_howto/html . Here is another great reference : http://www.dimensional.com/~bgiles/debian-tt.html#toc3 Cheers, Howard Mann Online Troubleshooting Resources: HOWTO http://www.newbielinux.comhttp://www.xmission.com/~howardm/t1.html
xfs vs xfstt vs native
Not exactly Debian-specific Can anyone point me to some layman's=style docs concerning xfs vs xfstt vs using native Linux fonts? I've read the DeUglification mini-Howto, but it didn't make clear whether you'd want to use xfs or xfstt or both or what. It seems to me that the use of xfs/xfstt for true-type font support is sort of like cheating, i.e. Linux uses its own native fonts and you shouldn't introduce a foreign font system to it. Thanks for any input.
Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt
Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, :Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? xfstt is a hack; it runs on a different port than xfs. xfs-xtt is intended to replace xfs and serve up TrueType fonts as well as the standard X fonts. Then shouldn't xfs-xtt replace both xfs-tt and xfs rather than just xfs-tt?? -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: : Hi, : Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? xfstt is a hack; it runs on a different port than xfs. xfs-xtt is intended to replace xfs and serve up TrueType fonts as well as the standard X fonts. xfstt is pretty easy to set up. xfs-xtt is somewhat difficult to set up, mostly due to lack of documentation in a language I can read (it's written in Japan). It works well though! -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
xfstt and xfs-xtt
Hi, Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ _
Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt
Hi Shao! On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Shao Zhang wrote: Can someone please explain the difference between the two?? Thanks. xfs-xtt is better for dealing with CJK fonts, and can also do some transformations (such as bold, slant...) For western fonts, xfstt is probably enough. I personally use xfs-xtt. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
Re: xfstt and xfs-xtt
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Re: xfstt vs. xfs-xtt
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True type fonts and xfstt once again...
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try this thing as well. There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and reading the FAG doc... But if I'll give the command 'make xfstt make install' The machine responds 'no rule to make target xfstt. Stop.' What is wrong? 'xfstt --sync' tells to have found the fonts. -hv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: True type fonts and xfstt once again...
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 10:24:45AM +0300, virtanen wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Aaron Stromas wrote: After seeing the discussion concerning ttf fonts and xfstt Idecided to try this thing as well. There was no problem to put the fonts in their position and reading the FAG doc... But if I'll give the command 'make xfstt make install' The machine responds 'no rule to make target xfstt. Stop.' What is wrong? Absolutely nothing is wrong. :) Well, nothing is wrong with respect to that error message. You do not actually need to compile and install xfstt, since the .deb package already is compiled, and dpkg installs it for you in the proper place. you should be good to go, ready to use ttf. :) 'xfstt --sync' tells to have found the fonts. -hv [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)
seth, i've read and followed the faq before i asked for advice. the xfontsel -pattern found no matches. xcoral is not on my system - what is it? -a Seth R Arnold wrote: Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt make install xfstt --sync xfstt xset fp+ unix/:7101 xlsfonts xcoral -fn TTM20_Times New Roman xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xset -fp unix/:7101 If your X server cannot handle the unix protocol replace the unix/:7101 part by inet/127.0.0.1:7101 (assuming the machine running xfstt has 127.0.0.1 as internet address). 1.2 How do I use it? Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added FontPath unix/:7101 to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with could not open default font 'fixed'. i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which produced no match. it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;fax:+1 703-708 7922 tel;home:+1 301 493 4933 tel;work:+1 703 708 6821 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.oracle.com org:Oracle;Advanced Technology Solutions adr:;;196 Van Buren Street;Herndon;VA;22070;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Principal consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Stromas, Aaron end:vcard
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)
Hmm. My next thought -- and I must apologize for asking -- have you actually installed ttf files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype? And, are they named *ttf? I got many of mine from a DOS machine, and it had many TTF files that I renamed to ttf. (my machine has a nifty rename script, written by larry wall in perl, and expanded upon by others, that does the renaming job very nicely... :) BTW, the *.fon files are not true-type. They are windows bitmap fonts. If you have any of these in your /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory, it might not hurt to delete them. I would hope such a silly thing wouldn't prevent xfstt from working, but one never knows. hth :) On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:39:38AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: seth, i've read and followed the faq before i asked for advice. the xfontsel -pattern found no matches. xcoral is not on my system - what is it? -a Seth R Arnold wrote: Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt make install xfstt --sync xfstt xset fp+ unix/:7101 xlsfonts xcoral -fn TTM20_Times New Roman xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xset -fp unix/:7101 If your X server cannot handle the unix protocol replace the unix/:7101 part by inet/127.0.0.1:7101 (assuming the machine running xfstt has 127.0.0.1 as internet address). 1.2 How do I use it? Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added FontPath unix/:7101 to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with could not open default font 'fixed'. i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which produced no match. it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)
Seth R Arnold wrote: Hmm. My next thought -- and I must apologize for asking -- have you actually installed ttf files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype? And, are they named *ttf? I got many of mine from a DOS machine, and it had many TTF files that I renamed to ttf. (my machine has a nifty rename script, written by larry wall in perl, and expanded upon by others, that does the renaming job very nicely... :) aha! i was wondering if i should rename them but i didn't. i don't have the script but it should be just a couple of perl lines to this one thing. i followed the faq in /usr/doc/xfstt plus there is a font deuglification minihowto. so i'm fairly sure i didn't miss any necessary steps. BTW, the *.fon files are not true-type. They are windows bitmap fonts. If you have any of these in your /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory, it might not hurt to delete them. I would hope such a silly thing wouldn't prevent xfstt from working, but one never knows. that's what they are! at first, i removed them, then when i got errors i put them back. hth :) so do i. thanks. -a On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:39:38AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: seth, i've read and followed the faq before i asked for advice. the xfontsel -pattern found no matches. xcoral is not on my system - what is it? -a Seth R Arnold wrote: Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt make install xfstt --sync xfstt xset fp+ unix/:7101 xlsfonts xcoral -fn TTM20_Times New Roman xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xset -fp unix/:7101 If your X server cannot handle the unix protocol replace the unix/:7101 part by inet/127.0.0.1:7101 (assuming the machine running xfstt has 127.0.0.1 as internet address). 1.2 How do I use it? Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added FontPath unix/:7101 to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with could not open default font 'fixed'. i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which produced no match. it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp.| BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;fax:+1 703-708 7922 tel;home:+1 301 493 4933 tel;work:+1 703 708 6821 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.oracle.com org:Oracle;Advanced Technology Solutions adr:;;196 Van Buren Street;Herndon;VA;22070;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Principal consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Stromas, Aaron end:vcard
Re: true type fonts and xfstt - solved
when i typed 'fairly sure" before i hesitated a second. the problem was xfstt runs on port 7101 but in XFConfig i managed to put 7100. one looks but does not see... thanks again to all respondents, -a Aaron Stromas wrote: Seth R Arnold wrote: > Hmm. My next thought -- and I must apologize for asking -- have you actually > installed ttf files into /usr/share/fonts/truetype? And, are they named > *ttf? I got many of mine from a DOS machine, and it had many TTF files that > I renamed to ttf. (my machine has a nifty rename script, written by larry > wall in perl, and expanded upon by others, that does the renaming job very > nicely... :) aha! i was wondering if i should rename them but i didn't. i don't have the script but it should be just a couple of perl lines to this one thing. i followed the faq in /usr/doc/xfstt plus there is a font deuglification minihowto. so i'm fairly sure i didn't miss any necessary steps. > > > BTW, the *.fon files are not true-type. They are windows bitmap fonts. If > you have any of these in your /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory, it might > not hurt to delete them. I would hope such a silly thing wouldn't prevent > xfstt from working, but one never knows. that's what they are! at first, i removed them, then when i got errors i put them back. > > > hth :) so do i. thanks. -a > > > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:39:38AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > seth, > > > > i've read and followed the faq before i asked for advice. the xfontsel -pattern > > found no matches. xcoral is not on my system - what is it? > > > > -a > > > > Seth R Arnold wrote: > > > > > Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. > > > here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: > > > > > > 1.1 How do I test it? > > > mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run > > > > > > make xfstt make install > > > xfstt --sync > > > xfstt > > > xset fp+ unix/:7101 > > > xlsfonts > > > xcoral -fn "TTM20_Times New Roman" > > > xfontsel -pattern "-*-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > > xset -fp unix/:7101 > > > > > > If your X server cannot handle the unix protocol replace the > > > unix/:7101 part by inet/127.0.0.1:7101 (assuming the machine > > > running xfstt has 127.0.0.1 as internet address). > > > > > > 1.2 How do I use it? > > > Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. > > > Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. > > > > > > Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) > > > > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied > > > > the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my > > > > XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with > > > > "could not open default font 'fixed'". > > > > > > > > i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) > > > > started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ > > > > unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern "-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" > > > > which produced "no match". it appears, i'm not getting the true type > > > > fonts. > > > > > > > > any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would > > > > be much appreciated. > > > > > > > > also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' > > > > says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it > > > > has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are > > > > capitalised, does it matter? > > > > > > > > please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the > > > > list. tia, > > > > > > > > -a > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" > > > > Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, > > > > +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France > > > > > > > > > > Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas > > > > > > -- > > > Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ > > > Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help > > > Hi!
true type fonts and xfstt (again)
hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with "could not open default font 'fixed'". i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern "-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" which produced "no match". it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France begin:vcard n:Stromas;Aaron tel;fax:+1 703-708 7922 tel;home:+1 301 493 4933 tel;work:+1 703 708 6821 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.oracle.com org:Oracle;Advanced Technology Solutions adr:;;196 Van Buren Street;Herndon;VA;22070;USA version:2.1 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:Senior Principal consultant x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Stromas, Aaron end:vcard
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)
Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added FontPath unix/:7101 to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with could not open default font 'fixed'. i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which produced no match. it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Adding FontPath unix/:7101 as the last line in XF86Config and running xfstt --sync worked for me. I only copied the *.ttf fonts. I don't think xfstt can use the *.fon ones. I, also, rebooted my machine to get rid of the error msg, however, I'm not sure that's necessary. regards, Mary
true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)
when i posted the note below earlier i forgot to mention that i did indeed ran xfstt --sync (it tells me it found 118 fonts), and the xfstt is indeed started by /etc/init.d/xfstt. a number of people suggested that was the cause of the x server not starting. unfortunately, it's not. -a hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added "FontPath "unix/:7101" to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with "could not open default font 'fixed'". i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern "-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" which produced "no match". it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (yet again)
On Wed 09/22/99 02:45PM, Aaron Stromas wrote: Do you have the xfonts-base package installed? When you comment out the FontPath stuff for the TT fonts, does X start or not? -- ( __ _ Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Re: true type fonts and xfstt (again)
Aaron, there is a bit more involved than just adding it to the config files. here is the relevant section snipped from /usr/doc/xfstt/FAQ.gz: 1.1 How do I test it? mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype and put some *ttf fonts there, now run make xfstt make install xfstt --sync xfstt xset fp+ unix/:7101 xlsfonts xcoral -fn TTM20_Times New Roman xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* xset -fp unix/:7101 If your X server cannot handle the unix protocol replace the unix/:7101 part by inet/127.0.0.1:7101 (assuming the machine running xfstt has 127.0.0.1 as internet address). 1.2 How do I use it? Add unix/:7101 to the fontpath in your X11 configuration file. Start xfstt a few seconds before starting X11. Once you do these things, it will probably work nicer. :) On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:54:19AM -0400, Aaron Stromas wrote: hi, in an attempt to use the true type fonts i installed the xfstt, copied the fonts from a windows machine and added FontPath unix/:7101 to my XF86Config. unfortunately, my X server will not start. it quits with could not open default font 'fixed'. i have also tried this: 1) commented out the unix:7101 font path, 2) started x, 3) started xfstt (xfstt ), 4) added font path (xset fp+ unix/:7101), and 5) ran xfontsel -pattern -*-*-*-*-tt-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* which produced no match. it appears, i'm not getting the true type fonts. any explanations of what is wrong and how to correct the problem would be much appreciated. also, the windows font directory contain a bunch of *.fon which 'file' says is ms-dos executable. what is it? it has 8514fix.fon, so maybe it has something to do with the fixed font. quite a few font names are capitalised, does it matter? please, cc me, as for a variety of reasons, i'm not currently on the list. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg Oracle Corp. | BRTN commentator, +1 703 708 6821 | L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France Content-Description: Card for Aaron Stromas -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine but, i'm guessing, debian package added FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" to my /etc/X11/XF86Config. it appears, i must find a windoz box to copy the fonts from. i've seen some around ;-) -a On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: > > hi, > > i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and > the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about > not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package > and discovered that the fonts are in .pbf format. > I'm not completly sure, but pbf aren't ttf fonts. I think they are Type 1 fonts. Instead of xfstt use xfs and type1inst. Of course you can have both installed at a time. > so, xfstt is not meant to use freefont? > > according to freefont's documentation all that's needed is to restart > the x server but that does not solve the netscape problem. i've searched > for the basic .ttf fonts without success, although i've seen some > suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but > all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with > freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm > temporary unsubscribed. tia, > > -a > > > -- > Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." > Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator > +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez > 1995 Tour de France > > > > > Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net >>> Running Debian/GNU Linux 2.1 -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
Aaron M. Stromas wrote: thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine but, i'm guessing, debian package added FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/ to my /etc/X11/XF86Config. I did not see this anywhere in this thread. Be sure to add this line to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file also. Fontpath unix/:7101 This will add the truetype fonts to the available list of fonts for X windows. You might also search the mail list archives at debian.org regarding the use of ttf files. There is a great deal of info there on this subject. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
right, there is a "font deuglification mini-howto" i came across that mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, -a John Foster wrote: "Aaron M. Stromas" wrote: > > thanks to all responders. xlsfonts shows that freefonts are installed. > i didn't have to use 'type1inst' which is not currently on my machine > but, i'm guessing, debian package added > > FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" > > to my /etc/X11/XF86Config. I did not see this anywhere in this thread. Be sure to add this line to your /etc/X11/XF86Config file also. Fontpath "unix/:7101" This will add the truetype fonts to the available list of fonts for X windows. You might also search the mail list archives at debian.org regarding the use of ttf files. There is a great deal of info there on this subject. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 19460173 -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 11:37:25AM -0400, Aaron M. Stromas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right, there is a font deuglification mini-howto i came across that mentions that. unfortunately, i can't remember where i found it. thanks, http://members.aa.net/~swear/pedia/fonts.html This page has a lot of information about fonts, including a link to the Font Deuglification Mini-Howto. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous across, a dangerous on-the-way, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous shuddering and stopping. --Friedrich Nietzsche pgpWiHcqTZr7U.pgp Description: PGP signature
TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
hi, i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package and discovered that the fonts are in .pbf format. so, xfstt is not meant to use freefont? according to freefont's documentation all that's needed is to restart the x server but that does not solve the netscape problem. i've searched for the basic .ttf fonts without success, although i've seen some suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm temporary unsubscribed. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas | "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg..." Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
[...] i've seen some suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm temporary unsubscribed. tia, Windows stores the truetype fonts in \Windows\fonts. Copy them to /usr/share/fonts/truetype in Linux and type xfstt --sync. There should be a man page and you should read it. Have a look at /usr/doc/xfstt, too. A list of servers to download truetype fonts from is given there.
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Aaron M. Stromas wrote: hi, i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package and discovered that the fonts are in .pbf format. I'm not completly sure, but pbf aren't ttf fonts. I think they are Type 1 fonts. Instead of xfstt use xfs and type1inst. Of course you can have both installed at a time. so, xfstt is not meant to use freefont? according to freefont's documentation all that's needed is to restart the x server but that does not solve the netscape problem. i've searched for the basic .ttf fonts without success, although i've seen some suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm temporary unsubscribed. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas| Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg... Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net Running Debian/GNU Linux 2.1
Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont
The fonts included with the freefont package are not TrueType fonts, they're Postscript Type 1 fonts. These fonts can be used directly by the X server without the intercession of xfstt (which is only for TrueType fonts). Aaron M. Stromas wrote: hi, i've got tired of the tiny fonts in netscape and installed the xfstt and the freefont package. when i ran the 'xfstt --sync' it complained about not finding any *.ttf files. i looked at what is in the freefont package and discovered that the fonts are in .pbf format. so, xfstt is not meant to use freefont? according to freefont's documentation all that's needed is to restart the x server but that does not solve the netscape problem. i've searched for the basic .ttf fonts without success, although i've seen some suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm temporary unsubscribed. tia, -a -- Aaron Stromas| Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg... Oracle Corp | BRTN commentator +1 703.708.68.21 | L'Alpe d'Huez 1995 Tour de France -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xfs/xfstt
I'm a bit confused about xfs and xfstt. I understand that xfstt is for truetype fonts, and I have it working. But as far as I can tell, xfs doesn't offer any advantage (for a regular user) over just putting directories in the FontPath bits of the X configs. Is this true? bekj -- : --Hacker-Neophile-Eclectic-Geek-Grrl-Queer-Disabled-Boychick-- : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tertius.net.au/~gossamer/ : Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then : names the streets after them. -- Bill Vaughn
